One of last year’s hottest IPOs, Annie’s Inc., just fell 12% in after hours trading after announcing a recall of its frozen pizza products “due to the possible presence of fragments of flexible metal mesh caused by a faulty screen at a third-party flour mill.”

Annie’s says it hasn’t actually found any metal mesh in its finished products, and it hasn’t received any complaints, but was worried the mesh would have gotten through its regular screening for such issues. It is now using a different flour supplier, it added.

The company added in a filing it is “too early” to know the final cost, but does expect its fiscal third quarter to be impacted as well as future quarters.

Annie’s said in a filing it had expected sales of approximately $37 million for the third quarter, in line with analyst expectations, according to Thomson Reuters. That number will likely be lower and it expects pizza sales for the fourth quarter to be reduced before it begins shipping replacement pizzas in February.

Included in the recall were seven varieties of “rising crust frozen pizza” with a best-by date of Jan. 9, 2013 through Sept. 14, 2013, the company said.

Shares, which had jumped 5.7% to $38.47 in the regular session, slumped 12% to $34 if after hours trading. It’s a thinly traded stock, but a move like the one it is suffering in late trading would be a stark departure from its charmed public life.

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